Promotive

Origin

promote + -ive

Full definition of promotive

Adjective

1. Tending to promote
• 1861, w, Utilitarianism Chapter , And consequently, the utilitarian standard, while it tolerates and approves those other acquired desires, up to the point beyond which they would be more injurious to the general happiness than promotive of it, enjoins and requires the cultivation of the love of virtue up to the greatest strength possible, as being above all things important to the general happiness.